POL S 500

Welcome to the POL S 500 course website where you will find links to assignments, helpful handouts and some course readings.  My apologies for the crude nature of the site, but I am still having problems in getting interactive buttons to load properly with Frontpage 2003.

Syllabus.

Syllabus (sans the fancy schmancy cover).

Life's Little Mysteries.

The link to Life's Little Mysteries -- the weekly assignment where you post interesting, odd or otherwise puzzling questions about our social world.  Questions are due on each Friday by 8 pm.  Students are encouraged to respond with possible hypotheses, speculations and critical tests (a la Lave & March).  Postings here count towards your class participation grade.  Since postings are due by Friday evening, why not take a look at some of the posted questions and talk about them with your cohort over a few Friday beers!

Assignments.

Research Proposal Assignment Part I: The Research Question -- Due Friday, October 12 at 1:00 pm.

Research Proposal Assignment Part II: The Proposal -- Friday, November 30.

RRF Form for the Research Assignment Proposal and RRF instructions page .  (Remember, you do not need to put down personal information such as Social Security Number or home phone when completing this assignment.)

Assignment 1 - Power in the University

Assignment 2 - Beginning Your Career in Modeling

Assignment 3 - A Choice Example

Assignment 4 - Leader Beans

Assignment 5 - We're No. 23!

Assignment 6 - Sampling the Soviets

Readings.

Gill.  " The Political Origins of Religious Liberty ."

Albertson. " Religious Appeals and Implicit Attitudes. "

Geddes. "Cases You Choose."  (not yet linked)

Fearon. " Counterfactuals ."

Smith.  " Conceptualization ."

Grosclose & Milyo.  " Media Bias "

PS.  " National Research Council Relative Rankings ."

PS. " US News Ranking of Graduate PS Departments ."

Hix. " A Global Ranking ."

Grofman. " Direct and Indirect ."

Converse & Traugott.  " Accuracy of Polls ."

Finifter & Mickiewicz. " Political System of the USSR ."

Cohen. " Earth is Round ."

Katz. " Presentation of a Confidence Interval ."